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Rabid Hands Art Collective recently visited our shop, looking for materials [lumber, felt, paper rolls, foam tubes, and more] for their project in the 2013 Hidden City Festival. Hidden City invites artists to animate Philadelphia’s most unusual and remarkable spaces, … Continue reading
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We were so excited to receive this piece of scenery from a locally-shot television show. Here’s Dennis, with the confessional pieces fresh from the set. The bench is in the foreground, and the large framed-out platform behind it is the … Continue reading
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Meet our friends from Terracycle! Or, rather, what they do. From their website: “TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. We do this by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Anyone can sign up … Continue reading
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Remember these? These screens, salvaged from a film, have been repurposed before as interior decor. But they have great potential outdoors as well! The South Philly tree below needed a little help, so our friend Caitlin Perkins used a reclaimed … Continue reading
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Our friends from New Hope were back for more lumber and props a few weeks back. Recognize that bedpost from Arden Theatre Company’s CInderella? It got a second chance to be on stage, this time in New Hope Academy’s production … Continue reading
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Lisa Marie Middendorf and her friends recently visited The Resource Exchange, looking for lumber to make a table. They went home with this pile of 2×6. These painted boards were once part of the set for Arden Children’s Theatre’s production … Continue reading
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Welcome to the studio of artist Joshua Mosley. He teaches art and animation at the University of Pennsylvania. In his animation studio, he needed some black-out fabric for a very large 30′ x 10′ window. The Resource Exchange’s duvetyne — … Continue reading
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As Assistant Stage Manager at Theatre Exile this season, I [Flora] tend to think of The Resource Exchange as my personal prop warehouse. Materials I’ve purchased at the shop have sneaked into shows throughout the season. A deadly fax print-out … Continue reading
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We’re looking forward to joining The Philadelphia Artist Collective [PAC] for their production of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. Knowing the PAC, it will be a great show. It’s especially nice to have a chance to see one of Shakespeare’s … Continue reading
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Sometimes it is hard — for me, at least — to understand why things look the way they do when they are donated to the shop. These cabinets, for instance — why do the center cabinet doors open down? Why … Continue reading
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Lots of new items in the store this week, mostly from a prop shop clean-out. Here are some of my favorites: I’m crazy about these violet bud vases [pictured at the top of this post with a tiny dried flower … Continue reading
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Looking for some theatrical lights, but not willing to drop $150 on one of our exquisite Mole-Richardson fresnels? Try one of these on for size!They’re equipped with edison ["normal"] electrical plugs, but feature a bright parabolic aluminized reflector [PAR] lamp. … Continue reading